The High Court has rejected an application for a costs-capping order (CCO) in favour of an impecunious company with funding from the website CrowdJustice but also wealthy individual backers who it concluded did not want to fund the litigation be... view
ACL welcomes Allen ruling The full ruling in Allen v Brethertons LLP [2019] EWHC B3 (Costs) – which we reported last week – has now been published here. It saw Master Leonard reject a challenge to a Costs Lawyer’s delegati... view
A costs order from a piece of litigation involving trustees or executors does not automatically carry over to an order that the estate indemnify them, the High Court has ruled. Trustees and executors can only be deprived of their indemnity... view
Costs “can be awarded” in foreign currency The court has jurisdiction under section 51 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 and CPR 44.2 to make an order for costs in a foreign currency on summary assessment, a deputy High Court judge... view
The costs of reserved legal activities conducted by costs draftsmen under the supervision of a Costs Lawyer are recoverable, a judge has held, saying that to rule otherwise would make a Costs Lawyers’ work for members of the public “... view